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Kelton Halbert

@stormscale.io

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Personal account, views my own, you know the drill. Techniques Development Meteorologist for the Storm Prediction Center. See more of my photography: https://www.instagram.com/keltore My blog: https://www.stormscale.io

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 15d

SHARPlib 1.1.0 has been released to PyPI and conda-forge, and it was a pretty big update! Of note:

- Unified Python & C++ web documentation! keltonhalbert.github.io/SHARPlib/lat...
- Fully typed Python bindings
- Additional parameters
- Bug fixes

github.com/keltonhalber...

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 5h

A minor post release build has been pushed to PyPI and conda-forge that provides precompiled platform binaries for Python 3.14

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 1d

Shutdown Meira, Day 7 / ??

She’s realizing that there’s no end in sight, and treats will have to be rationed.

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 2d

Shutdown Meira, Day 6 / ??

Due to a lack of appropriations, ball throwing is no longer considered an essential service.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 2d

Shutdown Meira, Day 5 / ??

What I would give to be as unbothered as she is

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 3d

Showdown Meira, Day 4 / ??

Some essential workers work on weekends. This one definitely didn’t.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 5d

Shutdown Meira, Day 3 / ??

Gotta keep the wheat from waving too vigorously.

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Andrew Lyons @twisterkid34.bsky.social · 5d

#Shutdown Sammy day 2 of ?? She was excited while I was cooking fajitas. Im not excited about the continuing lapse of appropriations.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 6d

Shutdown Meira, Day 2 / ??

Essential government workers still have to work without pay. Meira is taking her job seriously, making sure the atmosphere behaves and stays convectively stable through dutiful Skew-T/Log-P thermodynamic analysis.

(Don’t tell the government but I’m paying her in treats)

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 6d

What a day

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 7d

I’m going to join @twisterkid34.bsky.social in posting shutdown puppies.

Here’s Shutdown Meira.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 8d

Ooooh yay, we’ve reached the Hatch Act violation stage! The first airing of grievances has begun.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 8d

a man in a suit and tie says yaaay

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says yaaay

media.tenor.com

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 10d

Kirby Smart has an Alabama problem.

James Franklin has a “winning meaningful games” problem.

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 10d

Nailed both upsets!!

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 11d

This USC Illinois game feels very much like Bret Bielema painting a tunnel entrance on a brick wall and Lincoln Riley driving headlong into it

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Chuck🏳️‍🌈 @mooney039.bsky.social · 11d

Southern Cal blew up the pac-12 so they could lose to Illinois at 9am pacific time

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 11d

Bowled next to R Mason Thomas today. I’m pretty sure he could use me as a bowling ball, one handed.

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 12d

Pretty decent verification

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 13d

Onset**

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 13d

Beginning to see the inset of dangerous wildfire spread conditions east of the Cascades. Visible satellite shows plume activity increasing on existing fires.

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 13d

If you saw the deleted posts…

Look, I got off work at 2 AM. My brain is a bit laggy.

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 13d

Critical fire-weather concerns exist across portions of the North Cascades into the Columbia basin.

25 MPH winds (gusting to 35) and widespread RH < 15% will overlap with receptive fuels and ongoing wildfires.

www.stormscale.io/spc/fire/day1

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Patrick Marsh @pmarshwx.com · 13d

This may be the first joint convective outlook done by two Science and Support Branch meteorologists who had not previously spent time as a full-time SPC forecaster.

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 13d

Today’s convective outlook brought to you entirely by the Storm Prediction Center Science Support Branch!

@pmarshwx.com with the convective outlook discussion, and yours truly with the general thunder lines.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 13d

Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 14d

Oh well. Gotta get ready to go tonight in for overtime shift coverage due to short staffing.